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For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …
Discussing the lies and methods that have made Americans the most politically dumb people on earth, prisoners of an elaborate propaganda “Bubble” from which there is no escape except through a patient reexamination of some of their dearest myths.
Factory farms, fur farms, sport hunting, ecodestruction…the list is long. Trillions of animals suffer each year at the hands of man.
We try to shed light on the truth about these systems, esp. capitalism, which is accepted without question in the USA.
The CIA role in the world is not so much to protect the American people, as to protect the US plutocracy and its world associates.
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For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …
Technically speaking, Mark Freeman should count himself among the luckiest people on the planet. The 52-year-old lives with his family on a tree-lined street in his own home in the heart of the wealthiest country in the world. …
When will the South stop setting records for moral imbecility?
By MARLENE CONDON | TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST
Published: August 23, 2010
In 2000, Virginia passed a constitutional amendment stating, “the people have a right to hunt, fish, …
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Anyone worried about the revival of the Taliban ought to be hoping for the revival of the communists.
By Stephen Gowans | August 9, 2010
While worries are expressed about “women’s precarious rights in Afghanistan … seeping …
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By Kate Randall 22 March 2010
With a special bonus feature by Jane Hamsher, sorting out myth from truth throughout the bill.
After months of closed-door negotiations with insurance CEOs and pharmaceutical executives, Obama …
For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …
The next time you come upon one of those revolting, overpaid, self-impressed Big Media assholes, spit in his eye. They’re accomplices to murder.
Embedded corporate media rose to new heights of non-journalism as, on command, they …
Robert Scheer | August 11, 2010
The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday (left) for advice on how to fix the financial …
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The Big Lie machine built by the right (and the establishment) must be broken. But that important feat won’t be achieved until progressives get serious about building their own media and mass communications …
STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH
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Back on March 21, 2007, in a column on The Political Junkies.net, the predecessor webmagazine to TPJmagazine.us, I speculated that perhaps the primary objective of the Iraq Invasion from the beginning …
And At Tax Payers’ Expense…!
BY TERRY BURROWS
Global Research, June 27, 2010 |
Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear …
The WAPO, for once, performs a genuine public service by running this story
Low Road to Splitsville—
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Monday, October 22, 2007
PITTSBURGH With some …
A MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUTH IS JUST AN IDIOT BUT A MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH AND CALLS IT A LIE IS A CROOK! –BERTOLT BRECHT
A man is nothing else but what …
By Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford | Wed, 08/25/2010 |
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A corporate offensive is rolling down upon us, aimed at wholesale privatization of the public sector. If the Left has learned anything …
The Tillman Story — Just Give Us Some Truth!
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Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and …
The Israeli lobby’s brazen intrigues and naked power are becoming an embarrassment to the American political elite
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